This guide presents a curriculum for a volunteer field aide program. The guide is based on a program that was conducted in New Hampshire that trained volunteers to assist teachers in outdoor environmental education ventures. It was found that the aides helped teachers to expand their existing programs by assisting in supervision, research and…

Developed to aid school-level administrators of the School Volunteer Program (SVP), this handbook is organized into five sections as follows: (1) what the responsibilities of SVP leaders are, including SVP resource person and volunteer chairman job description; (2) with whom SVP leaders work, including communication network, division of…

In this paper, boards of education are urged to evaluate their policies and their performance in relation to parent and citizen involvement and to consider seriously how programs at districtwide and school levels can be improved. The emphasis in such programs should be on developing open two-way communications and full participation aimed at…